[R6RS] shall versus must
dyb at cs.indiana.edu
dyb at cs.indiana.edu
Wed Aug 30 14:53:31 EDT 2006
I caught only the tail end of the "shall" versus "must" dicussion as I
came on the line Tuesday (I think). Can someone explain the rationale
behind the universal change? I seems more natural to me to use "must" for
syntactic or input requirements, as in
\hyper{Formals} must be a formal arguments list as described below
and "shall" for things like requirements on return values:
the value returned by {\cf eqv?} shall be a boolean
Kent
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